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ONLY ANSWER IF YOU ARE HAVING A BLACK SCREEN ISSUE. DO NOT ANSWER IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A PROBLEM.

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Great poll... could you make an identical poll for those who DO NOT have the issue. That would be of interest also. For those who haven't had the issue they should have there mini for at least a week before answering to give it some run time to happen.

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Great poll... could you make an identical poll for those who DO NOT have the issue. That would be of interest also. For those who haven't had the issue they should have there mini for at least a week before answering to give it some run time to happen.

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I think that would only answer what is not causing the problem when I'm interested in what configuration is (HDMI out?). I don't think everybody is experiencing the issue so the poll wouldn't tell us much.

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It's the HDMI port almost exclusively. Pretty sure this was covered in many of the black out threads already. You might find a person with the occasional problem with the TB/Displayport out causing problems, but those are isolated/computer related issues (or user).

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No, it's a clear kludge. Otherwise the Mini shouldn't have the HDMI port. A clear fix is using it as equipped.

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No, a fix implies there is a problem and X is the work around (aka "fix"). Therefore Chuckd is right, there is a clear fix. Now should there need to be a "fix" for a 2012 Mac Mini, no. There shouldn't need to be a fix, but it is what it is... Either buy it knowing you may or may not have issues with the HDMI port and whatever monitor you hook it to or don't buy it.

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My guess is that it was a bad MDP to HDMI cable or HDMI cable or something. See my first post in this thread about how using the TBP/MDP port seems to work for all but a few which is more than likely user error or something else. Seems too many have the TBD/MDP working just fine with an adapter to believe that these few isolated cases are really an issue with the Mac Mini rather than other parts of the "chain"....

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